by MinutemanMaroon
Hello, i'm a new member and a teenage railfan, living in southern New Hampshire. I was down by the PSNH's Merrimack Station coal plant the other day (at the Old Ferry Road crossing to be exact) and I had a bit of a flashback, you could say. When I was eight or nine in the early 2000's (2003 or 2004, I think) my mom would take me down that way often to see the trains. One evening, later than usual, we were driving down Old Ferry Road and suddenly saw action! I distinctly remember seeing an F-Unit being moved by another diesel locomotive, it seemed like it was being moved off of a siding where it was stored perhaps? I, as a young lad, referred to it as a "Super Chief" having no knowledge they were called F-Units . I asked my mom the other day and she said she remembers it being an F-Unit as well. Strangely enough, I remember it being in a green livery.... I know now there is absolutely NO reason for an F-Unit to be on the New Hampshire Mainline in this era, with neither Guilford or NEGS using them, ever. But this is one rail mystery I have never been able to solve and I wonder if anybody has any ideas!
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